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A question about setting up a speaker system!

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I am buying an Xbox 360 soon and building a new rig. I found a monitor that will work easily with both my PC and 360 that I can switch between with. Now, I need a way to hook up 2.1 speakers to both systems. Here is the back of the monitor with all the ports and labels.


My video card is going to the HDMI port. Can I get that HDMI audio out port to work with my PC and my 360? I need some help.
 
The best thing would be to run the 360 through the HDMI port. Then you can use the HDMI audio out on the monitor for the 360 audio. If you use the computer through the HDMI port, no audio will be sent so it really doesn't make sense to use HDMI for the computer. You really should connect the computer through the DVI connection on the monitor.

As for connecting both the computer and 360 to the same speakers, if you buy something like the Klipsch Promedia 2.1's (good as far as computer audio is concerned) you can plug the speakers directly into your sound card then run the audio out from the monitor into the aux in on the promedias.

amazon has the promedias for cheap right now
http://www.amazon.com/Klipsch-ProMedia-Certified-Computer-Speaker/dp/B000062VUO
 
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